I have written before about how I believe the "church," by which I mean the insitiution of christian religions in general, is responsible for the ruination of millions of sex lives and by extension, marriages. And don't get me started on the countless hang-ups so many people have. I keep hoping that now, since most of humanity has made it into the 21st century, things will change. I wish these people would get themselves and their dirty little minds out of the dark ages and start to think like modern human beings.
I keep getting disappointed. It seems that those same ostrich-inspired individuals who openly and unashamedly refute so much that science has taught us, are on the prowl again. It's not enough to insinst on forced sexual ignorance for their own children. Now they want to make sure the whole f'ing world remains just as stupid and blind as they are.
If you like getting fired up about other people's willful ignorence, read on!
The medical website Medilexicon ran an article on September 9, 2009, about the new sex education guidelines that will soon be released to educators all over the world to help develop sex and health education curricula. Here is the lead of the article:
The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization this week is scheduled to release draft international sex education guidelines, the New York Times reports. The guidelines -- which UNESCO, the World Health Organization and UNICEF have been working on for more than two years -- are designed to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS, improve sexual health and reduce the number of illegal abortions through sex education. Once finalized, the guidelines will be internationally distributed to education ministries, school systems and teachers to help direct educators in teaching students about their bodies, sex, relationships and sexually transmitted infections. . . .
Conservative and religious groups, mostly from the U.S., (emphasis mine) have attacked a June draft of the guidelines for encouraging discussions on condom use, masturbation and the statement that sexual abstinence is "only one of a range of choices available to young people" to prevent STIs and unintended pregnancies. The groups also have criticized the guidelines' assertion that "legal abortion performed under sterile conditions by medically trained personnel is safe." The guidelines encourage discussing "access to safe abortion and post-abortion care" and the "use and misuse of emergency contraception" with students ages 12 to 15.
The full text of this article ran here.
Realize, the people writing these guidelines are respected professionals in the international health community. Two years worth of research, discussion, and work has so far gone into writing this document. Most of the world seems to be OK with the guidelines as they were published (in draft form) last June. Only some conservative and religious groups, mainly American ones, want to fly in the face of scientific fact and professional expertise, to claim that sexual abstinence is the only way to sexual safety, and that proper medical abortions are unsafe. In pigheadedly promoting thier own agendas, without any understanding of the realities young people face all over the world, they would choose to risk the life and health of millions.
How sick. How sad. How pathetic that the majority of these dissenters come from America, one of the most affluent and medically advanced countries in the world.
How disheartening, that this is where our freedom of religion has landed us. Here we have the freedom to promote dangerous misinformation in the name of Jesus, who claimed to be "the light and the truth."
There you have it. Welcome to America, land of the free, home of the ignorant.
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